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WASHINGTON — The vetting of Ben Carson is focused in the wrong direction. Yes, when a candidate's raison d'etre is biography, the accuracy of his purp...

WASHINGTON — Yale's president, Peter Salovey, dealt with the Crisis of the Distressing Email about Hypothetical Halloween Costumes about as you would ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — It is the $2 billion question: Which Pennsylvania homeowners will get the biggest benefit from a higher state sales tax? Gov. Tom Wo...

At one time, people placed carved pumpkins with a candle inside on their front porches to announce the beginning of the Halloween season. And then it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's quest to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, perhaps by moving some detainees to the United States, h...

Do you like college basketball? It may be my favorite sport now that they've banned elevator surfing. My team is Syracuse. Yeah. I know what you're th...

WASHINGTON — The fourth Republican presidential debate was, by most accounts, a bit of a snoozer. But in a good way. There was less interpersonal conf...

WASHINGTON — Trigger warning: I'm about to commit a micro-aggression. Maybe a macro one. Here goes: Yale students worked up over an email about Hallow...

WASHINGTON — Welcome to the vetting season, in which presidential candidate resumes are pumped full of air, submerged in water, and tested for bubbles...

WASHINGTON — Were the lungs the seat of wisdom, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly would be wise, but they are not and he is not. So it is not astonishing th...

WASHINGTON — In the annals of presidential politics, it's hard to recall anyone who has tried so hard to be so ordinary. The fascinating story of Dr. ...

One of the basic tenets of journalism ethics and practices is that reporters must keep their distance from news sources. They’re allowed to be friendl...

WASHINGTON —If the truth sets us free, then Bush family members should be warbling from rooftops. At least one Bush, patriarch George H.W. Bush, has b...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Nobody seems better prepared for the third round of NASCAR's playoffs than Team Penske, which has led 662 of the last 834 laps ...

Northwestern's football players didn't get their union, and today's major college athletes probably won't ever get their money. Still, the events in M...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — It wasn’t Sammy Watkins’ finest moment. During the bye week, 12 days ago, while visiting Disney World with his daughter, the Bill...

BERLIN — Abdulela Alhajjar is a big fan of Angela Merkel, which is simultaneously the German chancellor's finest tribute and her biggest threat. Like ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is just one symptom of today's cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evi...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The results from Tuesday's state Supreme Court elections were barely in when triumphant Democrats began talking about what the court...

COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — Scientists at a research center on Hawaii's Coconut Island have embarked on an experiment to grow "super coral" that the...